Following “Mr. Gandhi”
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 04.14.05 | 9:25 PM ET
The Boston Globe’s Tom Haines recently joined marchers in India re-enacting Mahatma Gandhi’s great salt march, which took place 75 years ago. His story, which appeared earlier this month, offers a glimpse into the marchers’ lives and the legacy of the great Indian revolutionary. “In India, 57 years after Mohandas K. Gandhi was killed by a fellow Hindu, democracy thrives and education and technology have vaulted many to the front of the modern world,” Haines writes. “But much of what the mahatma hoped to improve remains unchanged: Caste often defines social relations; religions, at times, battle with words and weapons; more than 250 million people live in poverty. One foreign marcher, a Dutch lawyer turned wanderer, gave a personal reason for joining this new ‘Dandi Yatra,’ as the march is called in the Hindi language. The Dutchman had come to India, he said, ‘’to try to find Mr. Gandhi.’”
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
